Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Keep your wits about you as you enter The Keep, Jennifer Egan's latest novel, or you might get lost in the intriguing, intricately convoluted maze of stories. Danny, an edgy, somewhat paranoid Manhattanite, obsessive about constant connectivity, goes to work for Howie, his estranged cousin, who's intent on transforming a crumbling Gothic castle in remote Eastern Europe into a luxury hotel...